Liječnički vjesnik, Vol. 142 No. 5-6, 2020.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.26800/LV-142-5-6-26
Unexpected difficult extubation due to mechanical cause following parotidectomy: a case report
Dinko Tonković
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Martina Miklić Bublić
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Daniela Bandić Pavlović
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Ante Sekulić
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Igor Balenović
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Slobodan Mihaljević
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Renata Curić Radivojević
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Robert Baronica
; Klinika za anesteziologiju, reanimatologiju i intenzivno liječenje, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb
Abstract
Difficult airway management usually refers to intubation or extubation problems. We present a case eport of difficult extubation, and airway management algorithm that was used in a female patient following parotidectomy. Although there are algorithms for difficult airway management, there are no recommendations for difficult extubation that is mechanically caused and where endotracheal tube cannot be easily removed. Such conditions are rarely mentioned in the literature,usually in the form of case reports. Inability to remove endotracheal tube due to mechanical causes is an urgent condition and calls for an algorithm and guidelines. The algorithm that was performed in this case went uneventfully, and the patient recovered well.
Keywords
AIRWAY EXTUBATION – adverse effects; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT – methods; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL – instrumentation; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHESIA,GENERAL; PAROTID NEOPLASMS – surgery; BRONCHOSCOPY; LARYNGOSCOPY; VIDEO RECORDING
Hrčak ID:
240263
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Publication date:
29.6.2020.
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